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Texting Through The Snapchat & Other Micro Stories is my attempt at grabbing the melancholic haze that is stifling my expression of late. As always, I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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"Do you ever dream of land?" The whale asks the tuna.

"No." Says the tuna, "Do you?"

"I have never seen it." Says the whale, "but deep in my body, I remember it."

"Why do you care," says the tuna, "if you will never see it."

"There are bones in my body built to walk through the forests and the mountains." Says the whale.

"They will disappear." Says the tuna, "one day, your body will forget the forests and the mountains."

"Maybe I don't want to forget," Says the whale, "The forests were once my home."

"I have seen the forests." Whispers the salmon, almost to itself.

"Tell me what you have seen," says the whale.

"The forests spawned me." Says the salmon. "They sent me to the ocean to grow. When I am fat with the bounty of the ocean, I will bring it home."

"Why would the forests seek the bounty of the oceans?" Asks the whale. "They have bounty of their own."

"You forget," says the salmon, "That the oceans were once their home."

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Greetings from abroad

Leaving your motherland is never an easy decision. Even in the a country that is better off, the struggle to integrate and assimilate takes a mental toll few are prepared for; particularly culturally and socially. When you leave the shores of your country, you suffer a slow death. You are half in, half out; neither fully Ghanaian neither are you fully the nationality of your adopted nation.…

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Kumasi Opels (1963) - Martin van Duijn

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KWEKU ANANSE NE NYAME ABASƐM: KWEKU NE ONINI MU NSƐMNSƐM

AUTHOR’S NOTE Read the prequel KWEKU ANANSE NE NYAME ABASƐM PROLOGUE We were present in the beginning, with curiosity and cunning,  As the Ancients carved the earth, the seas, and the heavens. Yea, we were there, upon our four feet, when the fruit was consumed. We were cast down, to writhe upon our bellies, Slithering, as our legs did wither, turning into nought. My sister and I, we did…

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i keep thinking about how it feels as if we have developed ourselves an obsession with "healing" these days – and a friend said something that really stuck in my head – "if you're part of a community where you're always trying to heal, then that means that you always need to be sick". like i think that we're all taking this ideal of healing too far saying that everybody needs therapy all the time and resetting your gut biome or surrounding yourself with positive energy or whatever it is that you can come up with. you're always focusing on something that is "wrong" and that needs to be eliminated, after which everything will be okay again. it all sounds like just another way of maintaining an illusion of control over your life and i don't think it's doing us any good

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I have forgotten  What the sun feels like  On my skin  Golden tendrils of warmth  Dancing  The wind in my eyes  Roaring  Sometimes it whispers Hushed tones  Into mine eyes I have forgotten the taste of a mango  Succulent and slurpy and sweet A fruity mess  Meandering down my forearm  The aromatic flavours of a homecooked meal Tangy and warm and full of memory  Of A life I used to…

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It's Gone Quiet

Dear Reader, When I started my blog about 12 years ago around this time, I had no idea what the future held for me. After 239* posts, 25.0k views and 15.2k visitors later, it’s finally gone quiet. This blog was forged out of overwhelming emotion I could not hold back. Feeling love and its pangs was raw. I did the only thing I knew how to do then; write about it. This blog has been a journal of…

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Insidious: In a scene reminiscent of a Kaiju or monster movie, a Painted Turtle swims over a lurking Common Snapping Turtle submerged just below the surface.

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Ankarana Sportive Lemur (Lepilemur ankaranensis), family Lepilemuridae, Ankarana National Park, Madagascar

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photograph by Alexis Martin

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Bobcats (Lynx rufus), mother and kitten, family Felidae, Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge, south TX, USA

photograph by Frank J Farese

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Puma aka Cougar aka Mountain Lion (Puma concolor), juvenile, family Felidae, Chile

photograph by @hector_astorga_photography

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Resident Olive Baboons at the Shai Hills Forest Reserve

Traveling on the Tema-Akosombo route often serves up the treat of seeing Olive Baboons by the roadside. Drivers know to slow down around that stretch for a glimpse and to avoid hitting them.

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Neon Body Art . Visions by Pass!ons

passions-ink.tumblr.com . facebook.com/passionsink . IG 

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Mirror Mirror